The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... half his life , without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears . Those authors , therefore , are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of ...
... half his life , without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears . Those authors , therefore , are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of ...
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... half a dozen phthisical mottoes , wherever he had them , hopping short in the measure of convulsion fits ; in which labour the agony of his wit having escaped narrowly , instead of well - sized periods , he greets us with a quantity of ...
... half a dozen phthisical mottoes , wherever he had them , hopping short in the measure of convulsion fits ; in which labour the agony of his wit having escaped narrowly , instead of well - sized periods , he greets us with a quantity of ...
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... half his virility behind him . Salmasius was a Frenchman , and was unhappily married to a scold . ' Tu es Gallus , ' says Milton , ' et , ut aiunt , nimium gal- linaceus . ' But his supreme pleasure is to tax his adversary , so renowned ...
... half his virility behind him . Salmasius was a Frenchman , and was unhappily married to a scold . ' Tu es Gallus , ' says Milton , ' et , ut aiunt , nimium gal- linaceus . ' But his supreme pleasure is to tax his adversary , so renowned ...
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... half his time therein . ' Upon this relation Toland remarks , that in his opinion Philips has mistaken the time of the year ; for Milton , in his Elegies , declares , that with the advance of the Spring he feels the increase of his ...
... half his time therein . ' Upon this relation Toland remarks , that in his opinion Philips has mistaken the time of the year ; for Milton , in his Elegies , declares , that with the advance of the Spring he feels the increase of his ...
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... half the year . His submission to the seasons was at least more reasonable than his dread of decaying nature , or a frigid zone ; for general causes must operate uni- formly in a general abatement of mental power ; if less could be ...
... half the year . His submission to the seasons was at least more reasonable than his dread of decaying nature , or a frigid zone ; for general causes must operate uni- formly in a general abatement of mental power ; if less could be ...
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.